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- From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (General Boycott)
- Subject: Tacit Approval of Executive Orders (Re: Clinton's first Federal laws)
- Message-ID: <16NOV199201453468@utarlg.uta.edu>
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- Keywords: Kwitcher Bitchin -- it ain't a SEX-GIF
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- Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
- References: <1992Nov15.181929.28123@cs.ucla.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:45:00 GMT
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- I agreed with this so much, I had to cross post it.
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- In article <1992Nov15.181929.28123@cs.ucla.edu>, pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce) writes...
- >The first Federal laws for which Bill Clinton should be held personally
- >responsible after he takes office in January 1993 are those Executive
- >Orders (EOs) which
- >
- > (1) were issued by his predecessors
- > AND
- > (2) are still in effect in January 1993
- > AND
- > (3) he chooses not to countermand.
- >
- >President Clinton will have the power to countermand his predecessors'
- >EOs with the stroke of a pen; thus, there is no effective difference
- >between his failing to countermand an EO and having issued that EO
- >himself.
- >
- >It is incumbent on the news media to hold Clinton personally
- >responsible for his first Federal laws by
- >
- > (1) making the public aware of each of these laws
- > AND
- > (2) demanding from Clinton a specific justification for
- > each existing EO that he chooses not to countermand.
- >
- >-- Brad Pierce --
-
- "The worm just keeps turnin' for El Presidente Clinto'n."
-